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Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… My mother, as a little girl, escaped the horrors of the concentration camps. When grandfather returned after … a building worker and mother looked after the…
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… Mlambo-Ngcuka was sworn in as the Executive Director of UN Women during a ceremony on 19 August 2013 at United … by her husband Bulelani Ngcuka, the former…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… The sinking of the SS Mendi on 21 February 1917 became one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South …
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… out 300 000 flights and transported two million tons of supplies during the 406 days of the airlift. Some 441 American aircraft were used in total and they…
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, … in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close vicinity of the building which…
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… proceeded to Otongwe near Cape Corrientes. During his stay of seven weeks in Cape Corrientes, he instructed and baptized the Makaranga chief, Gamba, and…
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… Frederick Lugard was the British colonial administrator of West Africa from 1895. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the colonial system of indirect…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… in 1885, then at Windhuk in 1891. It covered the core of what is today Namibia. Over the next hundred years, … in Southwest Africa, inland from the arid…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… adhesive postage stamp in Africa was issued in the Cape of Good Hope, a British colony at the time. The triangular … by Charles Davidson Bell, who was the…
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) were called off as a result of the ANC's ultimatum sent to State President F.W. de Kerk. … the United Democratic Front (UDF) and…
ArchiveArt Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat by Matthew Krouse (Mail & Gurdian), 28 September 2013
… Art Fair, running in Sandton until Sunday, has been full of surprises. The Mail & Guardian reported on Friday that … Jo'burg Art Fair 2013 by the event…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Munsaka; The Jungle Peacemaker, Blessing Museki; The Story of how the Tortoise Shell Became Patterned, Lackson Chibanga; The Return of the dead One Suleimen…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… in the constitution. 3. There should be no entrenchment of apartheid education through the back door. 4. Provinces … should not be given powers that will…
PlaceDurbanville
… . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape. Durbanville is not your average Cape Town ……
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… in Kimberley, John Weston embarked on the construction of his own aeroplane in Brandfort, in the Orange Free State … in Kimberley creating a South African a…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether South Africa … a republic. The result showed that 52% were in favour of a republic…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… (prison) sentence, and prohibited the offer or acceptance of financial or other assistance for any organized resistance against the laws of the Union. In…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… supporters in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that pro…
EventThe Citizen reveals housing irregularities in Transkei
… The Citizen reported on details of Justice Tom van Reenen's report on alleged irregularities in the awarding of housing contracts in the Transkei. The report…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… The seven-month trial of former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan ended on 11 October when he and other officials were cleared of all charges relating to the…
EventJameson Raid starts
… Leander Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the Zuid…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was … on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed…
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… in Africa when 24,000 Zulu soldiers overran a British camp of 1 800 near Isandlwana Mountain. Over 1 300 of the British force were killed with over 1 000…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Ntsikelelo Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me … today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… Ceres is the Administrative centre and largest Town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa . Ceres serves as a…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… where the first church was built would become the centre of the newly established town, Pretoria (1855). The … This church has played an enormous part in the…
Insurrections III: The Storming
… at District Six for two performances on the 25th and 26th of September. For those of you who managed to catch the Ensemble last year, the new … be titled,…
PlaceFort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
… and Weiner, the fort cost £49 000 and had the same type of entrance as Fort Schanskop. Ramparts were built around the … , and alter the Corps Vesting…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
… as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to return to power … inspired by Hoare's adventures, and he is…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… The group’s acting CEO is gone and one of its most popular DJs has just said bye Felicia. But what … would be the SABC. The group’s acting CEO is gone, and…